 The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven; bat thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests,...  The Poems of Ossian - Page 2611810Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1828 - 316 pages
...themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness...beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm !' ** This is the language of praise; but who can reveal to our senses the sublime influence of his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...decay with years; tue ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou ai t 830 Ogsian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flow» on the... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for everthe same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When...from the clouds ", and laughest at the storm. But to Ossiaa thou lookest3 in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more ; Whether thy yellow hair flows4 on... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...themselves decay with years : the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 2. When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies ; thou lookest in... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in the heavens ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness...course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunders roll and lightnings fly, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 2. When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies ; thou lookest in... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...with years, ; | the ocean shrinAs, anrf grows' again ; | the moon Aerself,b is lost in heaven ; | liut thou, art for ever the same', | rejoicing in the brightness of thy course,. | 'When the world is darA with tempests', | 2when thunder rolls, and lightning flies', athou lookest in thy beauty from... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 2. When the world is dark with tempests; when thunders roll and lightnings fly' ; thou lookest in thy... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art forever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 3. When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, th<,u lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laugheat at the storm. But to Ossian, thou lookest... | |
 | Authors, English - 1843 - 560 pages
...Macpherson. " Der Ozean bliiht sich und sinket." — Denis. Literally : — The ocean swells and sinks. f " Thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds and laughest at the storm." — Macpherson. ********* j)ann schaust du von Wolken Deiner Schonheit gewiss, verachten dauf Wetter... | |
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